Hair-drying device.



PATENTED NOV. 17, 1903.

E. BURNHAM.

HAIR DRYING DEVICE. APPLIGATIOVNQ nun SEPT. 3, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented November 17, 1903.

EDWARD BURNHAM,. OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAIR-DRYING DEVlCE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,044, dated November 17, 1903. Applicationfiled$eptember3,1903f. Serial 1%. 171,7s6. (roman To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD BURNHAM, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Drying Devices, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The drawing shows my said new hair-drying device in side elevation, partly in central longitudinal section. I

The object of my invention is to produce a mechanism wherewith the hair of the head, more particularly of women, may be easily and quickly dried after washing.

After repeated experiments I have perfected the herein-described device, which is constructed in substantially the following manner, namely: I take a tube a of, say, three or more inches in diameter and four or five inches in height, more or less,and pass through the upper endthereof a transverse tube e of from one to two inches in diameter and prothe lower end of the shell or is secured a bar cl, upon which is fastened an Argand burner a, connected by a flexible tube Z to a gas-supply, and to the outside of the shell a are socured brackets k, holding a tube h, whereof the lower end is connected to a rubber tube V m, whereof the outer end is connected to a tank holding compressed air. The tube It above the handle 11 is bent into a quarter-circle j, and its end is provided with a blowingjet 9. Somewhat above the axis of the tube 6 said jet enters at the end qof the tube e.

In operation the burner c is lighted, whereby through its heat is created an air-current in the direction indicated by the arrows near (1, which passes upward and outward through each end of the tube a; but the tank n, be-

ing supplied with compressed air released through the jet g, blows a current of air through the tubeeabove the notchfand drives with it the air which rises from the burner c and enters the shell a from below and also causes an inflow of air at the opening q, all of which is discharged through the endp in a warmed or more or less heated condition and speed of motion, depending on the pressure of the confined air in the tank 92, the heat of the burner c, and the relative dimensions of the parts a and e. When thus arranged, the end 13- may be held at a suitable distance from the hair to be dried and then passed all around the head and along the hair, whereby shampooed or wet hair will be dried rapidly and agreeably.

What I claim is- 1. The combination of intersecting tubes, one of which has one closed end, and the other of which has both ends open and is notched within the circumference of the first-mentioned tube, a burner in said first-mentioned tube, a jet in the intersecting tube, and means for supplying fuel and air to the-burner and .jet respectively.

2. The combination of a tube having one closed end and air-entrances at the'other end, an intersecting notched tube one end of which is an air-entrance and the other end an airdischarge, a burner in the tube havinga closed end, an air-blast jet in the other tube arranged in a plane at an angle to the plane of the burner, and means to supply fuel and air to the burner and jet respectively.

3. A hair-drying device comprising a shell or tube, a burner to heat the air in said shell, an air directing tube communicating with said shell, and means for causing a current to pass through the air-directing tube and thereby withdraw the heated air from the shell.

. EDWARD BURNHAM.

Witnesses:

J OHN MCDONALD, THOMAS J. NEWBERRY. 

